INTRODUCTORY LECTURE: "GETTING MEDIEVAL"
Policy on Late Papers:
The "Dark Ages" in modern imagination:
Pope Gregory the Great, c.600 (the dove on his shoulder represents the inspiration of the Holy Spirit)
Maps:
Western Europe and the World:
Political Maps:
Europe and the Mediterranean in 300 AD
The World as understood by medieval people (east is at the top of the map)
Or a simplified version:
Themes of the course:
The Legacy of Rome...
...and of the "barbarians"
Christianization and the power of the written word:
Church and State:
